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Archicad 17 and IFC translator to Revit 2013?

rob2218
Enthusiast
Is there an IFC plug-in that translates from Archicad 17 to Revit 2013? I see there's one for Revit 2014?...but what about down to Revit 2013?
if so...could someone point me to the proper link?
thanks.
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
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Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
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Here they are:

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/addons/interoperability/Archive.html

The situation is, there is IFC import to Revit and IFC export from Revit. This add-in will work for Revit 2013 IFC export for sure, I think, because even AC16 was able to read those IFCs exported from Revit 2013.
The question is AC17 IFC export, then Revit 2013 import of that IFC. The question is whether Revit 2013 will be able to read the IFCs exported from AC17.
You will just have to try.
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rob2218
Enthusiast
Lasz,
Thank you.
Now that I read my own post again....here's what we have.
We have an RFA file opened w Revit 2013.
Now...I need to export out from Revit 2013 that RFA file so I can open it in AC17.....

Will the link you sent me allow me to so that once I install it?
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
i>u
Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Well, I think you will be able to export as IFC from Revit 2013 even without the Add-In. All the Add-In does is it fixes up the IFC a bit and fixes a few issues which were not OK in the IFC file (according to GS's knowledge and findings based on IFC import-export with Revit). So you will find you may or may not need the IFC Add-In for Revit.
But ArchiCAD 17 should be able to open the resulting IFC file, no matter which way you exported it from Revit 2013.
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AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
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rob2218
Enthusiast
Thought I should have been able to do the IFC export.....but in my Revit Architecture 2013.....my IFC EXPORT is "greyed" out. I can't seem to do an export to IFC function. I thought the IFC to Archicad translator is what was needed.
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
i>u
Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
rob2218
Enthusiast
Lasz...
Would do think would be the cause of my "IFC EXPORT" function in Revit 2013 to be greyed out?
...Bobby Hollywood live from...
i>u
Edgewater, FL!
SOFTWARE VERSION:
Archicad 22, Archicad 23
Windows7 -OS, MAC Maverick OS
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Sorry, I don't have Revit installed on my computer so I cannot even check it.
But I guess some condition must be met, like you have to have a Project file open, or you have to have a certain type of View opened and displayed, or you have to have some settings properly set or something like that.
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AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
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